{"id":21409,"date":"2015-05-07T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=21409"},"modified":"2015-05-07T05:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:00:36","slug":"pink-pink-pink-and-a-little-green-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/pink-pink-pink-and-a-little-green-tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink, Pink, Pink. I’m Taking a Stand — I Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Detail of “Pretty in Pink” by Valerie Lee and Robin Lee, J. Miller Flowers<\/a>, Oakland. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Valerie Lee and Robin Lee let themselves go soft on\u00a0pink this spring. The occasion was the annual Tulip Exhibition at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, and their design, “Pretty in Pink,” was just that — an unabashedly sweet concoction that stood\u00a0in contrast to some nearby\u00a0edgier, darker takes on the tulip.<\/p>\n

Susan Bell of Alameda, for instance, paired sweet-smelling lilacs with not-so-sweet, nearly\u00a0black tulip blossoms. And Agnes Kang of the Piedmont Garden Club dared an arrangement\u00a0that\u00a0spilled louche, orange-spangled flowers from\u00a0an out-sized martini glass.<\/p>\n

Fearlessly Pink<\/h5>\n

The fearlessly sentimental Lees stuck to their guns and to their color choice. They presented the world with a bouquet of tulips in varying shades of pink, which were set off by tones of — equally demure — green.<\/p>\n

I’m going to take a stand here. I like pink.\u00a0I’m all for putting\u00a0more\u00a0pink (and maybe a little less edge) out into\u00a0the world. And so . . . voila!<\/p>\n

More tulips at “A Cemetery Comes to Life — With Tulips.”<\/a>\u00a0 You might also enjoy, “A\u00a0Case of the Human Condition: Feminine, Feminist Pink.”<\/a>\u00a0More about my new book at WrestlingWithGodBook.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photos by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Susan Bell’s near-black tulips. (My trusty point-and-shoot insisted on lightening them to mauve.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tipsy “Happy Hour” by Agnes Kang of the Piedmont Garden Club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lotsa pink from\u00a0Valerie Lee and Robin Lee. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two floral designers\u00a0let themselves go soft on\u00a0pink this spring. The occasion was the tulip show at\u00a0Mountain View\u00a0Cemetery\u00a0and their design was an unabashedly optimistic\u00a0concoction that contrasted with nearby edgier, darker takes on the tulip. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[914,403,1433,706,1434,1435,959],"class_list":["post-21409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-floral-design","tag-flowers","tag-j-miller-flowers","tag-mountain-view-cemetery","tag-pink","tag-tulip-exhibition","tag-tulips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}